Karen’s Snapshots!

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The morning is foggy and it lends a quiet feel to the valley.  As we head out, we stop again at the beautiful Valley View scenic spot and enjoy the river and the mountains once again.  We then choose to leave Yosemite National Park via Highway 120 even though we [...]

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The last scenic stretch of my road trip was driving the Tioga Pass road through Yosemite National Park. It’s been a number of years since I’ve taken this route and it is beautiful. The first snowfall happened a few days ago, so the mountains are dusted with snow and soon this pass [...]

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I’ll be meeting up with Paige way later tonight, so I have a whole day to spend exploring the area and decide to look for a few geocaches because they can take you to interesting spots you might not otherwise see. Traveling down the Old Mammoth Road, I [...]

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Packing up and heading home today, but first I drive down the canyon and visit Devils Postpile National Monument.  The postpiles are hexagon shaped columns of basalt that have pushed up from beneath the ground; from the top, they look like patio pavers.  They are pretty cool to look at.  Going [...]

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I ended up camping in Brown’s Town Campground in Bishop last night.  By the time I finished playing around Mammoth Lakes last night, all the motel rooms where booked, so I headed over to Bishop and they were all booked too!  The police officer was nice enough to tell me about [...]